[TR] Dr Mahathir: Lee Kuan Yew is just a ‘mayor’

Dr,Mahatir has my full respect. He has a sense of nationalism that is the greatest prerequisite for a leader. He runs Malaysia for the benefits of Malaysia. He does not subscribe to the clonialists to the detriment of his country and his people. Dr,M does not concern himself with being popular with the west. He is not concerned if they like him, write nice things about him or invite him to sit on the board of J.P.Morgan. During the currency crisis, he withstood the wrath of the media, the conniving of the IMF and WORLD BANK, the political attacks from western nations and stood tall and called a spade a spade and accused the western financial system of being flawed and in fact was a tool of “rogue currency speculators. Both Malaysia and Dr M were a victim of an international conspiracy and he faced up to it, almost alone and withstood the tsunami and came out on top. In the...